I need to remove unnecessary files

I need to delete some files of uneeded on my hard drive so I can't defragment due to lack of available disk space. What should I do. ?

There are a number of things you can do to- temporarily - free up disk space.  The only real solution, however, is to get a bigger internal hard drive.   You can move the data to an external drive, but if it's the data that you use frequently, slower access times may annoy you.  Therefore, I do not recommend that you move your My Documents folder in its entirety on an external drive, but you can certainly do this by following the related instructions.

  • You can run Disk Cleanup (start > run > cleanmgr > OK) If you have more than one user, don't forget to run Disk Cleanup in all user profiles.  Also note that Disk Cleanup removes only the files in the temporary directory that have not been consulted in the past seven days, then you may want to manually remove the contents of C:\Documents and Settings\Settings\Temp for each user.  Just make sure you reboot before you delete recent files in the directory temp
  • You can reduce the size allocated for the restoration of the system to about 1 GB (right click on desktop > properties > system restore > settings)
  • You can disable hibernation (if you don't use it) (right click on an empty spot on the desktop > properties > screen saver > power > Hibernate)
  • You can disable the indexing of the drive, which will also speed up your computer a bit (http://lifehacker.com/031440/turn-off-indexing-and-speed-up-windows-xp)
  • You can reduce the size of your Internet browser cache (depending on the browser that you use)
  • You can remove most of the $NTUninstallKBxxxxxx files $ following the directions here: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Hotfix_backup.htm (read the warnings in the gray box first)

But none of these answers you will earn really large amounts of space for very long.  The term solution time is a bigger hard drive.

In the meantime, download and run JDiskReport, that will show you graphically what files take up more space and seem to so indicate what files you must delete or move to an external drive.

By all means uninstall applications is more desired or use the option - but do not count on the data in the control panel > Add / Remove programs that an application has been used "rarely" or "last use" date to some time ago.  Make sure that you don't really need an application before you click 'uninstall '.

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